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Sunday, 14 October 2012

Today in Palestine! Sunday, 14 October 2012

Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid & OccupationWATCH: IDF declares Palestinian grazing lands closed military zone
Last Saturday, a group of Ta’ayush activists traveled to the South
Hebron Hills to provide support to Palestinian shepherds seeking to take
their livestock out for grazing. Soon after they reached their
destination, a group of IDF soldiers arrived to declare the area a
closed military zone. Watch the confrontation transpire. By Israel
Social TV. link to 972mag.comSettlers Burn Olive Trees Near Nablus
Palestinian media sources reported, Saturday, that a group of extremist
Israeli settlers burnt Palestinian Olive trees that belong to residents
of Qaryout village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

A
number of pro-Palestinian solidarity groups and organizations have
coordinated various flotillas to Gaza or “fly-ins” to Israel’s Ben
Gurion Airport the past few years. The Estelle is the third attempt from
the Freedom Flotilla Movement to challenge Israel’s naval blockade on
Gaza. The Estelle, a ship originally from Finland, began its journey in
Sweden in Umeå where it was renovated before setting off to sail along
Europe’s coastline, including Finland, France and Spain. Last week it
arrived in the Mediterranean Gulf after having recently rounded the
Italian “boot” island of Sardinia.

Nearly
once a week clashes break out in East Jerusalem. Settlers live on top
of Palestinian businesses or across the street from Palestinian homes,
and white security cameras peek over the sides of buildings every 20
feet like, flags in an American suburb. They prowl for arrest around the
clock, capturing the faces of Palestinian children. At times the armed
private guards in striped t-shirts that tail each settler provoke
neighborhood kids. In some instances the children throw stones. In those
cases later the same night the police will show up and arrest them,
recognizing their faces from the security recordings. In other
instances, the children will awaken to tear gas canisters smashing
through their windows.

Two Palestinians Assassinated In Northern GazaPalestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians were killed,
on Saturday evening, and one child was injured when the army fired a
missile at a motorcycle driving in the center of Jabalai town, in the
northern part of the Gaza Strip.

IOF assaults school students in SilwanIn new racist attack, undercover units backed up by the occupation
forces attacked on Thursday morning a number of students of Silwan
school, sparking fear and panic among the students.

Soldiers Attack Bil’in’s Weekly ProtestSeveral protesters were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation
after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against
the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank
city of Ramallah.

"Since 1967, more than 730,000 Palestinian men, women and children are
estimated to have been imprisoned by Israeli military courts. The
majority of such prisoners are held in detention facilities inside
Israel, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits
the transfer of these prisoners into Israel."

RAMALLAH
(Ma’an) -- Two Palestinian prisoners are in critical condition in
Israeli hospitals, the Palestinian Authority's ministry of prisoners
announced Saturday. The conditions of Riyad al-Amour and Muhammad al-Taj
are deteriorating rapidly, according to a report from the ministry. The
report said al-Amour, 42, who is held in Assaf Harofeh medical center
near Tel Aviv, needs urgent open-heart surgery which cannot be performed
due to weak coronary muscles. Al-Amour slips into comas at least five
times a day and suffers from exhaustion and incontinence.

The
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) calls on pro-Palestinian and
peace activists from across the Occupied Territories to join
Palestinians on 16th October to protest the roadblock preventing access
to Jama’in Village. On this day, residents of Jama’in will remove an
earthen mound that blocks access to their agricultural lands.

To
whom it may concern, We are Israeli citizens who are active against our
government’s policies of racism, apartheid and occupation towards the
Palestinian people. In particular, many of us are veteran activists in
the campaign against Israel’s illegal colonization and settlement
construction policies in the occupied West Bank. We have learned that
Israel's Cameri Theatre is due to perform in New Delhi on Nov 4th 2012.
Since the Cameri is complicit in grave violations of international law,
which amount to war crimes, and since it serves as an official
propaganda tool for the Israeli government, we are calling for the
invitation to be rescinded.

On
October 8, 2012, the Day of the Heroic Guerilla, the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine remembers Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara,
revolutionary leader, fierce fighter, and principled struggler whose
true commitment to internationalism and liberation lives on in the
struggles of peoples around the world for freedom, justice and
socialism.

GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar on Saturday praised
Hezbollah for sending a drone aircraft into Israel last weekend, a
statement said. Zahhar described the operation as a "strategic
achievement" for the powerful Lebanese political group and a successful
step in the psychological battle between Iran and Israel. The Gaza
official made the comments during a media workshop in Gaza City, adding
that Hamas has a balanced relationship with Iran. Zahhar stressed that
the Islamist group has a policy of non-intervention in Syria, noting
that Palestinians are guests in the country but that the group advises
the leadership to listen to the Syrian street.

GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Brigades in Gaza on Friday said advances in Hezbollah's
weapons capabilities would benefit the Palestinian resistance.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday said his movement
had sent the reconnaissance drone shot down over Israel last
weekend. The Gaza-based Al-Mujahideen Brigades described Hezbollah's
operation as "unprecedented" and said it proved that resistance was the
best way to face Israel and to stop its continuous attacks.

[Haaretz]
"... The Iranian-made drone launched by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,
which penetrated Israeli airspace last Saturday, served as a reminder of
the complicated balance of deterrent power between the sides. That
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, looms as the most sophisticated antagonist
vis-a-vis Israel in the region is not in dispute.

“It
is our natural right to dispatch reconnaissance planes to occupied
Palestine [Israel] whenever we want. This was not the first time and it
will not be the last,” he said, noting that the Jewish state had
violated Lebanese airspace 20,864 times since the implementation of U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1701."

GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Israel is trying to bring chaos to the region by
threatening war on Iran but the Islamic republic can defend itself,
Islamic Jihad's representative to Yemen said Thursday. Ahmad Barakeh
said Israel was trying to "blow up" the whole region, backed by the US.
Islamic Jihad opposes any attack on Iran as it rejects any attacks on
Arab or Islamic countries, but Iran is "able to defend itself," Barakeh
told Ma'an.

Former Israeli Soldier Shalit Recalls CaptivityGilad Shalit, who was seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border
raid in 2006, said in a rare interview that he feared that if he were
left too long, his captors “would make me disappear.”

The
Hamas-run government in Palestine's Gaza Strip will legalize a Salafi
party for the first time since it took power in 2006, an interior
ministry spokesman said Saturday. “We met today with the founders of the
Salafi An-Nur party and briefed them about legal procedures they have
to follow before they officially announce their party,” said Islam
Shahwan. He added that freedom of expression and the right to establish
political parties and other organizations would be “guaranteed” to
everybody.

The
Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) fringe event at
the Party Conference was arguably the best attended for years. It was,
perhaps, suggestive of a noticeable shift in Labour Party attitudes
towards Palestine. This was one of four events on Palestine during the
week, the others being hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign &
Unite; Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP); and a reception by LFPME.
Chaired by the Huffington Post's Mehdi Hasan (the former editor of the
New Statesman), the LFPME panel included the Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Rt
Hon John Denham MP, Lisa Nandy MP and Shadow Minister for Africa and the
Middle East Ian Lucas MP, as well as Dr Hanan Ashrawi via Skype. They
addressed an audience of more than 300 people on what the Labour Party's
policy should be for Palestine under the title, 'Securing Peace and
Justice in the Middle East'.

BETHLEHEM,
West Bank, Oct 14 (Reuters) - "Many people still believe the post of
mayor is exclusively for men," says Vera Baboun, aiming to become the
first female mayor of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, and in the
process shake up a society where men still make the laws and do the
deals. The university lecturer has a good chance of achieving the first
goal in municipal elections being held across the West Bank on Oct. 20.
She heads a bloc of 12 Muslims and Christians in Bethlehem representing
the Fatah movement, which one recent survey found to command 49 percent
support in the West Bank.

Civil courage is
when civilians stand up against something that is deemed unjust and
evil, knowing that the consequences of their action might lead to injury
or even death. The Palestinian villagers of Al Aqaba, a little town in
the Jordan Valley of the West Bank, are standing up as peacefully and
courageously as they can, to build their homes on the land they own,
knowing that Israeli Army bulldozers may come at any time. They are “rebuilding to remain.”

Here's some high level intrigue, with the stakes being no less than Our Next War. You might have seen the bombshell piece by Foreign Policy editor David Rothkopf,
"A Truly Credible Military Threat To Iran," saying that Obama and the
Israelis are at last getting on the same page for a surgical strike on
Iran that would only last a couple of hours and bring regional benefits
to everyone.

Last
month, the South African international lawyer, Professor John Dugard,
spoke at the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine fringe meeting during
the party's annual conference in Brighton, co-sponsored by
MEMO. Professor Dugard has published the definitive work on the law of
apartheid, and was for seven years Special Rapporteur to the UN Human
Rights Council on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.

Serial
criminality against humanity is official Israeli policy. Punishment
never follows. Ruthlessness best describes these type abuses. Committing
them without accountability is unconscionable. It goes on daily.
Western media scoundrels ignore it. Too few people understand what
everyone should. Militarized occupation is hell. Terrorizing civilian
men, women, and children is worst of all. In early October, Israeli air
strikes and artillery attacked Gaza. At least one death and numerous
injuries followed. On October 11, Israeli aircraft struck again.

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